Northwestern Memorial employee charged with theft of patients' identities

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By Naomi Nix
Chicago Tribune reporter
May 15, 2012

A Northwestern Memorial Hospital employee has been charged with identity theft 
after she allegedly used the personal information of hospital patients to pay 
her bills.

Shatina Golden, 35, of Matteson is charged with aggravated identity theft and 
identity theft. She has worked at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for the last 
four years, according to the state?s attorney?s office.

Matteson police began investigating Golden after village officials spotted 
?suspicious credit card activity? involving payments for her home water bill, 
the state?s attorney office.

Police said they identified the actual owners of credit cards Golden was using 
to pay her bills. And they learned from credit companies that all of the cards 
had been used at a laboratory at Northwestern Memorial.

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